Diversity

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DIVERSITYMeeting the Needs of Diverse Learners
Meeting the Needs of Diverse Learners:
• Students with disabilities?
To assist students with disabilities, these types of interventions will be incorporated to provide direct instruction to students:
  • Break students into smaller learning groups
  • Break instructions into smaller steps
  • Provide regular quality feedback to students
  • Use diagrams, graphics, and pictures to augment what they were saying in words
  • Provide ample independent, well-designed, intensive practice for students
  • Model instructional practices for students to follow
  • Engage students in process type questions like, “How is that strategy working? Where else might you apply it?”

• Different learning styles (visual, auditory, kinesthetic) and intelligences (Gardner’s multiple intelligences)?
To assist different learning styles and multiple intelligences of students, these types of interventions will be incorporated to provide direct instruction to them:
Visual/Spatial learners:
  • Provide information to students via blackboard, Smart Board, and/or PowerPoint presentations, using various graphics and vibrant colors.
  • Encourage students to create graphic organizers and mind maps to learn information about notable scientists and inventors

Auditory/Musical learners:

  • Allow students to create mnemonics and/or acrostics to learn information about notable scientists and inventors.
  • Allow students to create poems or songs to learn information about notable scientists and inventors.

Tactile (Bodily/Kinesthetic) learners:
  • Provide students with hands-on activities, such as the computer related assignments that they’ll be required to complete.
  • Allow students to transition (move around the room) regularly as they complete assignments.
  • Allows students to role play; create skits in learning information about notable scientists and inventors.
Verbal/Linguistic learners:
  • Record myself as the teacher explaining assignments, giving instructions so that these students can have access to listen to this information as often as necessary.
  • Allow students to orally present information about notable scientists and inventors, instead of presenting this information in writing.

Logical/Mathematical learners:

  • Allow students to use the computer to complete assignments

Interpersonal learners:
  • Allow students to work in small groups to complete assignments
  • Encourage cooperative learning within student groups
Intrapersonal learners:
  • Allow students to reflect and write about their personal perspectives to learn information about notable scientists and inventors.
  • Allow students to complete assignments/projects without the help of others.

• Gifted students?
To assist gifted students, these types of accommodations will be incorporated to provide direct instruction to them:
  • Allow students to use their own groups based on common interests.
  • Allow opportunities for students to transform learning; create new products based on information that has been learned.
  • Pose open-ended questions that require higher-level thinking.

• Cultural differences? –
  • Build meaningful relationships with students, such as attend their extracurricular activities (whether school related or not).
  • Teach, model, and reinforce the daily practice of the golden rule, and rules, policies, and procedures.